Appeals Quote by Alexey Brodovitch

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

— Nigel Barker

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

— Alexey Brodovitch

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised,…

— Susan Sontag

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

— Christopher Anderson

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably…

— Irving Penn

No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the art world…

— David Wojnarowicz

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

— Ansel Adams

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It…

— Irving Penn

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman